It seems the folks over at the controversial, ultra Right-wing Fox News Network are in full-on panic mode right now, following a massive leak of unaired footage hailing from their insane interview with Trump-loving rapper and wannabe presidential hopeful Kanye West — and it’s apparently left leaders in the network desperate and obsessed with tracking down the “mole” behind the leak, according to a new report from The Daily Beast.
Lachlan Cartwright and Andrew Kirell with The Beast report, “Fox News executives are ‘full-on freaked out’ about the leak of never-aired clips of Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kayne West, Confider has learned, and the network is closing in on the ‘mole’ who was the source of the embarrassing breach. A few weeks ago Carlson interviewed West, who now goes by the mononym Ye, and touted him as a brave truth-teller dismissed by liberal elites for his increasingly far-right beliefs and stunts like wearing a ‘White Lives Matter’ shirt to Paris Fashion Week.”
“Fox may be closing in on the leaker, but it’s now almost a week since Vice published the videos. This is a notable detail because in 2012, the last time the network dealt with a major video breach, it found and escorted the leaker — Bill O’Reilly’s then-associate producer Joe Muto — out of the building in less than 24 hours,” the report goes on to note. “‘This new leaker learned from my mistakes,’ Muto told Confider. ‘The main reason I got caught is that I wasn’t covering my digital trail particularly well. They’re obviously doing a better job than I did if they haven’t been found yet.'”
Last week, as reported by The Washington Post, Fox’s Tucker Carlson aired a rather controversial and highly edited and excerpted version of the aforementioned interview, baiting his audience and viewers, ” Is West crazy? You can judge for yourself as you watch what we’re about to show you.”
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The Post‘s Philip Bump writes, “Even in what Carlson showed, there were questionable comments,” before going on to add, “What was excluded, according to the footage from Vice, was more disconcerting. Ye claimed that he’d rather his kids learn about Hanukkah than Kwanzaa since ‘at least it would come with some financial engineering.’ His assertion that ‘professional actors’ had been ‘placed into my house to sexualize my kids.’ He said he trusted Latinos more than ‘certain other businessmen’ — a vague descriptor he used to ‘be safe.’ Ye also told Carlson that he had ‘visions that God gives me, just over and over, on community building and how to build these free energy, kinetic, fully kinetic energy communities.'”
The bombshell leak came hot on the heels of West’s Twitter proclamation that he was going “death con 3” on Jewish people. Ultimately, this tweet led to the rapper’s ban from the social media platform.
Since then, it seems West has tried to channel his inner Elon Musk, as he announced that he was purchasing the all-but-failed Right-wing Twitter alternative, Parler, for an undisclosed amount. Funnily enough, his acquisition of Parler would make him a direct competitor to his idol Lord and Savior Donald Trump, who started and owns Truth Social, the ex-president’s own struggling Twitter alternative, after he too was booted indefinitely from Twitter.
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